Avalanche shut out of trio of top NHL honors

The Avalanche went 0-for-3 during the NHL Awards on Tuesday night, including Nathan MacKinnon falling short of his MVP bid

BY JOHNNY HART

Jun 29, 2021, 6:37 PM Updated: 6:41 pm

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On the ice, the Colorado Avalanche only got shut out twice during the 2020-’21 season. But on Tuesday night at the NHL Awards, the Avs managed to get blanked three times.

A trio of Avalanche players — defenseman Cale Makar, goaltender Philipp Grubauer and forward Nathan MacKinnon — were up for some of the league’s top hardware and walked away empty handed.

Makar, up for the Norris Memorial Trophy, managed to come in second (655 points) in the voting for the league’s top defender, trailing only the award winner, New York Rangers defenseman Adam Fox (743). Tampa Bay Lightning blueliner Victor Hedman game in third (433).

MacKinnon, up for the Hart Memorial Trophy, finished third (313 points) in the voting for the league’s MVP behind Toronto’s Auston Matthews (600) and award-winner, Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid (1000).

Grubauer (36 points) also came in third in the Vezina Trophy, given to the league’s top goaltender, losing out to Tampa’s Andrei Vasilevskiy (99) and award-winner, Vegas Golden Knights netminder Marc-Andre Fleury (108).

Interestingly, Fleury was the goaltender who shut out the Avalanche during the season as well (on Feb. 14 and 22).